police department

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   the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime

   Broaderlocal department

Questions about police department

What does police department mean?

police department means "the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime".

Is police department a common word?

police department is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.